Rolfing 10 Series Overview

At its most fundamental level, Structural Integration attempts to systematically mobilize and re-balance the body's physical components around a vertical line. Dr. Rolf's 10 session organizational system helps us as practitioners by providing a standard to assist our client in their efforts to move from physical imbalance to balance, from fragmentation to physical integration.The following ten steps show how the Structural Integration process will take place. These ten steps are based on the platform of Dr. Ida Rolf's ten session program.

SESSIONS ONE And TWO

The first session of Structural Integration focuses on organization of the body's outer layers of muscle and connective tissue. The aim is to better ground and transfer movement through a persons body as well as to balance and stabilize the major structural layers.

SESSIONS THREE

The first session of Structural Integration focuses on organization of the body's outer layers of muscle and connective tissue. The aim is to better ground and transfer movement through a persons body as well as to balance and stabilize the major structural layers.

SESSIONS FOUR

The fourth session begins the process of separating, stretching and stimulating the deeper layers of muscle and fascia. This session focuses on the alignmnet of the legs to the inner pelvis. It is from the pelvic area that we find our center fo balance.

SESSIONS FIVE

The fifth session focuses on releasing the holding patterns within the deeper layers of the groin, abdomen and thorax. This enables the fluid transfer of movement through their inner pelvis, abdomen, and thorax.

SESSION SIX

The goal of the sixth session is to remove imbalances between the legs, pelvis, sacrum and spine and addressing any remaining fixed patterns of imbalance or rotation between the legs, pelvis and back.

SESSION SEVEN

The goal of the seventh session is aligning the head relative to the rest of the body and focusing on the body's vertical center.

SESSION EIGHT and NINE

The aim of these two sessions is integration. Here we begin to concentrate on the body as a whole working to find alignment between the upper and lower halves of the body.

SESSION TEN

In session ten the we balance all the body's major cross sectional and horizontal planes. We pay attention to and balance the transfer of movement through the body. Finally we adjust the fascia along the spine, neck and thorax, neck and head, and between the pelvis and legs.